This is I got nothing day. Well I do but it is also I got no time day as well. So here you go.
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy.
"Yankee Doodle" was originally a patriotic song. But in truth it was composed in England as an anti-American tune. The phrase"stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" referred too a *foppish English group called the Macaroni Club, whose members wore ludicrous "continental" fashions they mistakenly believed to be elegant. The British laughed at "Yankee Doodle dandies, bumpkins who didn't know how silly they really were.
*Expect the word foppish to be peppered liberally thought out many of my upcoming blog posts.
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